My own anecdote from my time as an undergrad at UConn: my ethics professor once said, verbatim, that anyone who supported a pro-life stance was, flat out, wrong. I watched conservative speakers come to campus and the associate vice president said that “even the thought of an individual coming to campus with [conservative views] can be concerning and even hurtful” [1]. This was after an “event review process” was stood up, ostensibly with the intent to moderate content that could be discussed at the university, following a right-wing speaker’s talk breaking out into violence after being called a Nazi and having his property stolen [2].
My own experience has been that “liberal indoctrination” correctly captures the magnitude of this effect.
Conservatism, by definition, opposes change. It disapproves of new ideas and philosophical innovation in favour of tradition.
Universities have always been hotbeds for change, research, vanguard and protest against the standard. I'm not surprised there's so little conservatism there; it's an environment that attracts open-mindedness, not people who shy away from deep analytical reconsideration. For the latter, there's churches.
1% of Harvard faculty identifies as conservative: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-...
77% of students say professors espouse liberal ideas: https://freebeacon.com/campus/campus-conformity-college-stud...
Other miscellaneous statistics: https://www.aei.org/articles/are-colleges-and-universities-t...
My own anecdote from my time as an undergrad at UConn: my ethics professor once said, verbatim, that anyone who supported a pro-life stance was, flat out, wrong. I watched conservative speakers come to campus and the associate vice president said that “even the thought of an individual coming to campus with [conservative views] can be concerning and even hurtful” [1]. This was after an “event review process” was stood up, ostensibly with the intent to moderate content that could be discussed at the university, following a right-wing speaker’s talk breaking out into violence after being called a Nazi and having his property stolen [2].
My own experience has been that “liberal indoctrination” correctly captures the magnitude of this effect.
1: https://www.dailywire.com/news/uconn-acts-uc-berkeley-offers...
2: https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/us/lucian-wintrich-uconn-spee...